M. Ardington

Slow. Very slow. Tired. Very tired.

Revisado: 06-08-24

LONG TIME DeMille follower. Nelson, if he even wrote this, should retire before all dignity is lost. It grieves me to say it. I gave this a fair chance. Out of respect for all the pleasant reading hours that this writer has given to me over the years, i toughed it out well into Chapter 33.
It's awful. I don't know how else to say it. If he keeps putting this stuff out he will get into James Lee Burke territory. Stop. Please

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Call it What It Is

Revisado: 09-07-22

Crap.
Ron Swanson can only carry one so far.
Yuck.
I am probably in the minority, but this is just bad.

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Cornwell Undiminished by Time

Revisado: 11-18-21

As good as any.... of the many
Not bad for an old man Uhtred and BC

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Unsure At First.... Cornwell Strikes Again

Revisado: 07-25-21

BC always gets great narration. The variety of accents and realistic with both genders

Didn't know about doing Arthur, but glad he did.

Same formula but I love it.

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I Want Them to Never End

Revisado: 01-10-21

AMS at the top of his game. Book 13 catches us up with all the folks of Edinburgh that we've come to know, whether to loath or to love. One cannot help but to cheer Stuart on as the long suffering husband of Irene... and there are good things happening for Pat. In these difficult times in the world, what a welcome respite.

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Gabriel and the Pope

Revisado: 12-07-20

Guidall perfect for these. Very enjoyable and well crafted. This series keeps me wondering not 'what will happen in the next one' but 'where will the next one take place '?
First rate.

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Just Plain No Good

Revisado: 09-26-20

For such talented folks this really misses the mark. The writing is just... bad. Like one of those SNL skits where you're petty sure if you were stoned you might have laughed once or twice, but.. you weren't stoned.

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Great Reads No Matter Who's Writing Them

Revisado: 04-30-20

There has been something vaguely different about the last few Virgil Flowers books and I suspect "John Sandford" is no longer writing the complete book.... but they are still excellent reads and Virgil has overtaken Lucas Davenport as far as I'm concerned. This particular one was quite good, I'm looking forward to a series featuring Letty... but does Sandford have the juice for, and interest in, launching something like that? Letty would be a great central character.

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Almost Too Thorough

Revisado: 06-11-19

This book is, of course, biased, but not nearly as much as the constant news releases related to the "scientific consensus" and "the latest science". Many of the assertions made by Booker cannot be denied. I happen to have two science degrees and have worked in the the fields of forestry, forest pathology, and general environmental science for over 40 years. I was disappointed that Booker did not even mention the most glaring bad science in Mann's Bristlecone Pine "study". I'm not the statistical wizards that McIntyre and McKitrick are, but I DO know a thing or two about trees and their physiology. There is NO WAY that you can derive reliable temperature inferences from growth ring studies. The reason for this is that the radial growth of trees involves AT LEAST three other factors besides temperatures, and, I would vehemently argue, these factors taken each unto their own, are likely MORE important than temperature. Moisture, competition for favorable conditions like light, protection from wind, and other microsite factors CANNOT be separated from temperature and have much more effect on both spring and summer radial growth. So to draw any inference from radial growth related to temperature would be an impossible task. When proxy data is really all one has, one is tempted to make it sing and dance and perform all sorts of things it simply cannot perform. So.... back to this book ....

It is well-researched and still valid even though, what, eight years old now? Methinks, however, that they repeated some points one or two times more than necessary... to the point where, by the appendices, I had to stop listening. I think the number of times certain points were hammered on made the arguments made somehow less convincing.

Overall, good job, and keep fighting the good fight. This nonsense has gone on far too long, the general public has become a bunch of mindless automatons who repeat the same old press releases over and over. "Science" is not on the side of any political party. I happen to believe that there is very likely some anthropogenic effect related to climate change. But I have yet to read a very good paper making this case, and the hyperbole and vitriol surrounding this issue is toxic to REASON itself.

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Good First of a Series But Depressing

Revisado: 05-26-19

Mosley is a good writer, yet I found this story to be vaguely depressing with a lot of seediness, hollowness and despair. The amount of alcohol consumed and discussed was a turn-off for me as well. The plot was not clever by any means and centered around mostly despicable characters. I think if I read this either immediately before or after a James Lee Burke novel I'd be ready to go jump off a bridge.
Having said all of this, the book is still a well-written story... just not my taste. I'll probably give the rest of the series a pass.

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